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1. Phaedrus
   Roman writer of Latin animal fables, born in Macedonia in 14 CE; Phaedrus came to Italy as a slave when he was young; later he was granted freedom by Augustus, the first Roman emperor; some of Phaedrus' fables are original works while others are rewrites of fables attributed to the ancient Greek wri...
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2. Phaedrus
   (c. 15 BC-c.AD 50) Roman fable writer. Born in Macedonia, he came to Rome as a slave in the household of Emperor Augustus, where he learnt Latin and was later freed. The allusions in his 97 fables (modelled on those...
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3. Phaedrus
   (from the article `Plato`) Though the immediate subject of the Phaedrus is to show how a truly scientific rhetoric might be built on the double foundation of logical method and ... ...by Plato. He taught about God mostly in mythical terms, stressing the goodness of God (as in the Republic and Timaeus) and his care for man (as in ... ...
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4. Phaedrus
   Roman fabulist, the first writer to Latinize whole books of fables, producing free versions in iambic metre of Greek prose fables then circulating ... [3 related articles]
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5. Phaedrus
   Phaedrus (fē'drus) , fl. 1st cent. A.D., Latin writer, a Thracian slave, possibly a freedman of Augustus. He wrote fables in verse based largely on those of Aesop. The prose collections of fables that were popular throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages were probably derived from Phae...
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6. Phaedrus
   (fabulist) `Phaedrus` (c. 15 BC – c. AD 50), Roman fabulist, was probably a Thracian slave, born in Pydna of Macedonia (Roman province) and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. He is recognized as the first writer to Latinize entire books of fables, retelli...
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